Reproductive profiles and risk of breast cancer subtypes: a multi-center case-only study

Abstract Background Previous studies have shown that reproductive factors are differentially associated with breast cancer (BC) risk by subtypes. The aim of this study was to investigate associations between reproductive factors and BC subtypes, and whether these vary by age at diagnosis. Methods We...

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Main Authors: Olivier Brouckaert, Anja Rudolph, Annouschka Laenen, Renske Keeman, Manjeet K. Bolla, Qin Wang, Adelheid Soubry, Hans Wildiers, Irene L. Andrulis, Volker Arndt, Matthias W. Beckmann, Javier Benitez, Carl Blomqvist, Stig E. Bojesen, Hiltrud Brauch, Paul Brennan, Hermann Brenner, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Ji-Yeob Choi, Sten Cornelissen, Fergus J. Couch, Angela Cox, Simon S. Cross, Kamila Czene, Mikael Eriksson, Peter A. Fasching, Jonine Figueroa, Henrik Flyger, Graham G. Giles, Anna González-Neira, Pascal Guénel, Per Hall, Antoinette Hollestelle, John L. Hopper, Hidemi Ito, Michael Jones, Daehee Kang, kConFab, Julia A. Knight, Veli-Matti Kosma, Jingmei Li, Annika Lindblom, Jenna Lilyquist, Artitaya Lophatananon, Arto Mannermaa, Siranoush Manoukian, Sara Margolin, Keitaro Matsuo, Kenneth Muir, Heli Nevanlinna, Paolo Peterlongo, Katri Pylkäs, Suleeporn Saajrang, Caroline Seynaeve, Chen-Yang Shen, Xiao-Ou Shu, Melissa C. Southey, Anthony Swerdlow, Soo-Hwang Teo, Rob A. E. M. Tollenaar, Thérèse Truong, Chiu-chen Tseng, Alexandra J. van den Broek, Carolien H. M. van Deurzen, Robert Winqvist, Anna H. Wu, Cheng Har Yip, Jyh-Cherng Yu, Wei Zheng, Roger L. Milne, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Douglas F. Easton, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Jenny Chang-Claude, Diether Lambrechts, Patrick Neven
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-11-01
Series:Breast Cancer Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13058-017-0909-3